Lyrics to
Rainbow Eyes

This version of Rainbow Eyes was released by Rainbow in 1978.

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She’s been gone since yesterday
Oh I didn’t care
Never cared for yesterdays
Fancies in the air

No sighs or mysteries
She lay golden in the sun
No broken harmonies
But I’ve lost my way
She had rainbow eyes
Rainbow eyes
Rainbow eyes

Love should be a simple blend
A whispering on the shore
No clever words you can’t defend
They lead to never more

No sighs or mysteries
She lay golden in the sun
No broken harmonies
But I’ve lost my way
She had rainbow eyes
Rainbow eyes
Rainbow eyes

Summer nights are colder now
They’ve taken down the fair
All the lights have died somehow
Or were they ever there

No sighs or mysteries
She lay golden in the sun
No broken harmonies
But I’ve lost my way
She had rainbow eyes

Oooh, ooh

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When you decide to study the lyrics to Rainbow Eyes, you're looking at the words, verses and background chorus from the 1978 song by Rainbow. Some of the lyrics to Rainbow Eyes have clear meanings and some contain metaphorical references. Like most songs, only Rainbow and their collaborators know the full story behind any of the their songs.

You can understand the lyrics to Rainbow Eyes if you take apart the structure of the words. The word "lyric" itself derives from the Latin word lyricus, with the actual English word lyrics applied to the definition "words set to music" listed in Stainer and Barrett's 1876 Dictionary of Musical Terms. Continuing the chain, the Latin word lyricus derives from the Greek word λυρικός or lyrikós. This somewhat means "poetry accompanied by the lyre" or "words set to music." You can easily see that by looking at the background of the word lyric, that the "lyrics to Rainbow Eyes" means the words set to the music of Rainbow Eyes, or poetry accompanied by the lyre played by Rainbow. The singular form "lyric" is still used to mean the complete words to a song. However, the singular form lyric is also commonly used to refer to a specific line (or phrase) within a song's lyrics. Hence, by this analysis of word structure, you could say that the lyric to Rainbow Eyes and the lyrics to Rainbow Eyes are both one and the same thing. None of this talk about the word Lyrics is really relevant to fans of Rainbow who came here looking just for the lyrics to Rainbow Eyes, but we feel it is still fun to learn what's behind commonly used words and lyrics in songs.

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